Testing out CloudFlare
We decided to start testing out CloudFlare for site performance reasons. We like to tweak everything and try our hardest to make it work better. No guarantees of course that this will help, but it should improve the way the javascript is rendered on the page. CloudFlare also offers some protection from botnets and other [...]
Authors With Fake Addresses Banned
Working on some more clean up of some of the spam that seems to have slipped through the first round editors. A lot of it was submitted by users (abusers really) who create accounts using fake addresses. The good news is, assuming you used a real address, this shouldn’t be a problem. However if you [...]
The Lazy Hazy Summer Update
Things have been cruising right along over here at ArticleSnatch.com – hopefully summer has been treating you as well as it has us. We have a number of projects in the works to expand the offerings of the site Spam removal continues and will be an ongoing project. In general we remove everything that promotes [...]
Another Plagiarist Banned
We have just removed the accounts of a few more people who have just stolen other people’s articles. So if for some reason you felt that you were allowed to copy someone else’s articles and post them here, then please login and delete the articles from your account. Should we discover them, we will ban [...]
ArticleSnatch.com Best Practices, Tips and Advice
Article Marketing can be a challenging task if you don’t keep a few things in mind while doing it. Remember this is not a race and consistency will pay off more in the long run that burst work (i.e. you would be better to submit one article per day, than 30 no and wait a [...]
Merry Christmas and Site Hackers
First Merry Christmas everyone, sure Christmas is December 25th, but that was yesterday, so I’m a tad late. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday. Just got done fixing the site after some hacker at 5:33 EST from an ip address of 211.72.36.100 decided to hack our site and insert a random redirect [...]
Weekend Update End Of October
We are approaching roughly one month since we put into place a LOT of changes to the site. We are still working on many more improvements to the site and decrease page load times and optimize the speed of the site as well as quality of the information delivered. Traffic to the site has increased [...]
OMG Article Directory Google Slapdown!!!
July and August were terrific months traffic wise, the best we have ever had over here at ArticleSnatch.com. It was a nice test of scale for the platform that we are running on. At the end of August we noticed something that other sites have seen – the dread Google Slap! Google Slap Toward the [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-12
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-11: Facebook to Give Out User Names at Midnight EST Friday Night: You might need to .. http://tinyurl.com/l395uu # New Article – Commercial Sweepers Ensure All Areas of the Business are Running at Peak Efficiency P.. http://tinyurl.com/nmfgrr # New Article – Steel Safety Barricades and Barriers to Suit Every Need Posted By [...]
Comment Spam
By ArticleSnatch on December 17, 2009
We have a comment policy on this blog, it is linked from every page as well as by the comment form, yet we continue to get “people” who leave comments using a keyword instead of their name. Even though the comment form very clearly says to use your Name. Well we have stopped reading these [...]
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